Desk Drive is a free software program for Windows XP and Windows Vista that solves a problem for lazy users. Whenever you pop in a removable device you need to click on Windows Explorer and then on the drive icon to access it. Desk Drive on the other hand places a Windows shortcut right on [...]
Add New Keyboard Shortcuts
It’s rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure keyboard shortcuts in the system. Enter HoeKey. A lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing a ini file that contains all the [...]
Remove Invalid Windows Shortcuts
The computer desktop is not the only location where shortcuts can usually be found. The Windows start menu and the user’s documents and settings directory are two additional locations where lots of windows shortcuts can be found. The main problem with these is the fact that they do not get automatically updated if the user [...]
Create Shortcuts With Advanced Shortcuts Composer
Creating Shortcuts in Windows is not really that complicated. A right-click on a folder or file provides access to the create shortcut menu and there is also the option to drag and drop files or folders to another path which will create a shortcut when the CTRL key is pressed during the operation.
The software program [...]
Ten Windows Keyboard Shortcuts I cannot live without
When I’m helping friends and family members who are not that tech savvy with their computers I always notice that they do not use keyboard shortcuts. Instead of doing the plain old CTRL C, CTRL V to copy and paste selected text they use the mouse to do that. Thinking about this for a while [...]
